so it belonged to me so it was OK to open it. [96] Then I looked at the front of the envelope and I saw‚ There was a postmark and it was quite difficult to read‚ but it said London 16.10.97 NW2 Which meant that the letter was posted on 16 October 1997‚ which was 18 months
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The Rise of Communism in Russia "Unless we accept the claim that LeninÕs coup dÕtat gave birth to an entirely new state‚ and indeed to a new era in the history of mankind‚ we must recognize in todayÕs Soviet Union the old empire of the Russians -- the only empire that survived into the mid 1980’s" (Luttwak‚ 1). In their Communist Manifesto of 1848‚ Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels applied the term communism to a final stage of socialism in which all class differences would disappear
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“Ten Days That Shook the World” is a book by American journalist and socialist John Reed about the October Revolution in Russia in 1917‚ which Reed experienced firsthand. Reed followed many of the prominent Bolshevik leaders‚ especially Grigory Zinoviev and Karl Radek‚ closely during his time in Russia. John Reed died in 1920‚ shortly after the book was finished. John Reed’s classic account of the Russian Revolution of November 1917 isn’t an attempt at large-scale dispassionate historical analysis
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The first idea you need to get your head around is that there were two "revolutions" in 1917. One in March (called the February Revolution) and one in November (called the October Revolution). However‚ they are collectively known as "the Russian Revolution". The February Revolution started with people rioting over food prices in the capital Petrograd. When the soldiers wouldn’t fire on the demonstrators‚ things got out of hand and it turned into a spontaneous mass uprising. The result of the
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revolution ASAP mensheviks were pro waiting 1903 massive wave of strikes 1904 russia goes to war with japan Russia failed and this caused privitization and additional hardship 1905 bloody Sunday: led to mass distress in country father gapon October manifesto: granted civil liberties to Russian people and the establishment of parliament 1906 first duma: lower chamber of Russian parliament 1906-1911 stolypin assassinated A. Stolypin believed that by abolishing the peasant commune‚ they would
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I do not think that it is the writer’s/filmmaker’s responsibility to address social‚ environmental‚ political‚ humanitarian issues in their work. However‚ I think that it is important for writers/filmmakers to inspire change through their work by addressing social and personal issues in their work. Writing and filmmaking is a creative process‚ no one should feel obligated to write or create a story that reflects a social issue. At the end of the day it is the writer’s decision if they want to write
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Dr Zhivago Dr Zhivago has broken hearts for both readers and watchers all over the Eastern and Western world. This is the dramatic story of a young doctor during World War I‚ Russian Revolution and the Civil War. Yuri Zhivago wrote poems about his experiences and struggled during these hard times‚ and eventually they became a best-seller fictional novel. Movies have come out in honor of this tale and have touched people worldwide. However‚ every movie and series that comes out does not show all
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starting-point presents no problem: almost everyone takes it to be the "February Revolution" of 1917‚ which led to the abdication of Nicholas II and the formation of the Provisional Government. But when did the Russian Revolution end? Was it all over by October 1917‚ when the Bolsheviks took power? Or did the end of the Revolution come with the Bolsheviks ’ victory in the Civil War in 1920? Was Stalin ’s "revolution from above" part of the Russian Revolution? Or should we take the view that the Revolution
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political and public‚ which all three leaders changed in different ways. The most important individual in bringing about the change in influence is Vladimir Lenin‚ who brought about a sudden sharp rise in the party’s popularity. Following the 1917 October Revolution‚ Lenin became the leader of the Communist Party and greatly increased the party’s political influence with his ‘one party state’. Lenin’s creation of the Politburo in 1919‚ which was a group of eight high profile party members who influenced
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The Russian Revolution of 1917 was made up of a series of revolutions in Russian with the aim to disassemble the authoritative Tsarist autocracy that eventually led to the upsurge of the Soviet Union. During this time‚ a new wave of innovative filmmakers who were determined to create a new way of seeing came about. Before the revolution‚ Russian films were dark‚ slow-moving melodramas featuring popular stars‚ but by 1917 the Russian film industry was galvanized by young men and women who despised
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